Why barbed wire? Just use wire. Or put deer netting around the entire planting site.

I truly empathize mxk. I have a terrible deer problem, you just turn your back and they are causing trouble. If I do not spray or otherwise protect the plant is a goner. In my dreams I would have a 12' fence all around the garden but it is too large an area. !@#%$%%#@!! deer!!!

The barbed wire is so they don't rub their antlers against the bark -- they're trying to rub off the felt. For some of the other ones, I just slipped black plastic drainpipe around the trunk -- problem solved. But I have a young clump of river birch where that solution won't work, and with the stake next to the Japanese maple, it's just kind of hard to get the drainpipe around the trunk. So a couple stakes around the perimeter of the tree with barbed wire twined around should do the trick; I have the supplies in the barn, have a big bolt of the wire. I've gotta get out there this afternoon and do something or the poor thing is just going to end up the scratching post, so to speak. I can probably get drainpipe around it now, since a lot of it is now gone...sigh...

I am going to enjoy a medallion of venison tonight. My contribution to the problem

The barbs aren't what provide an adequate barrier, it's the wire - all the barbs are going to do is the make the wire more difficult and hazardous to handle.

Good show kitasei! I said in another post at least it is tasty. I still have a bit left from last year and I hope everyone hunting soon fill their tags. We have an over population.

Hmmmm.... too bad deer don’t hibernate, it would give all of you a chance to catch up with your deterrence. Hope everybody here conquers the deer problem yesterday. More power to ya! I feel a little bit of your pain, I fight with the bunnies.

Sherry

Roads around here are a war-zone this time of year -- car wrecks & deer carcasses all along the roads. I have to dodge them all the time.

Yes bengz here the insurance companies and cops were telling the Ministry of Natural Resources to issue double deer tags for all hunters - did they do it, no. Apparently the deer are more important than people. I generally have a live and let live attitude but not in this case.

Hunting is necessary in the absence of their natural predators.

I fight with the bunnies.

This is why |I cannot ignore wrapping our JMaples come later this Fall even though it is a pain to do so. Rabbits will eat any part of the tree they can get their "hands on".

You have my complete sympathy. They ate things this year that have been deer proof in the past. We use hot wire around our veggies and that has worked so far. I think they can hear the current. Now, having said that, I am going to go knock on some wood.